ACNS - Youth empowerment tops agenda at Anglican Alliance's second consultation

[Worldwide Faith News <wfn@igc.org>]

Youth empowerment tops agenda at Anglican Alliance's second consultation

Posted On : September 5, 2011 9:00 AM | Posted By : Admin ACO
ACNS:
<http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/news.cfm/2011/9/5/ACNS4932>http://ww 
w.anglicancommunion.org/acns/news.cfm/2011/9/5/ACNS4932

Related Categories:

<http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/news.cfm/ACO--Anglican-Alliance>ACO
- Anglican Alliance
By Anglican Alliance staff
Youth empowerment topped the agenda for the
Anglican Alliance consultation which opened in
Solomon Islands in the Pacific today
Participants from across the region are meeting
at Tetete Ni Kolivuti, a novitiate set in a
wilderness area outside the Solomons? capital of
Honiara. They are deciding on priorities for the
Anglican Alliance which brings together
development, relief and advocacy across the Anglican Communion.
The event is being hosted jointly by the Anglican
Alliance and the Anglican Church of Melanesia.
Participants have come from the Pacific Provinces
of Aotearoa, New Zealand, Melanesia, Papua New
Guinea and Polynesia, from Africa and from
Anglican agencies: the Anglican Board of Mission,
AngliCORD and the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund in Canada.
On the first of five days? consultation they
looked at ways to improve co-ordination,
strengthen the Anglican development, relief and
advocacy in the Pacific and build the Alliance
steering group in the region. They are bringing
forward recommendations to make sure that their
small island nations, which cover a quarter of
the surface of the globe, but have only tiny
populations, could have a stronger voice worldwide.
On Tuesday participants? debate will be led by
Philma Zaku , a young women from the Solomon
Islands, and they will consider a paper on the
challenges facing alienated young people in the Pacific.
Later in the week, they will consider papers on
the impact of climate change on small island
nations; theirs are among the most vulnerable
globally to climate change. They will also be
visiting local projects, including a refuge for
women experiencing domestic violence.
The consultation, which concludes on Friday, is
the second in a series of regional consultations
being held by the Alliance. Latin America and the
Caribbean region are to hold their consultation
in October, while Asia?s consultation takes place in November.

> ENDS
> Notes to Editors
> ·         The Anglican Alliance for development,
> relief and advocacy is the international
> initiative that brings together work across the
> communion. Its mission is to build on the work
> already being undertaken across the communion,
> build capacity, co-ordinate and provide a clear
> voice for the Communion in international development.